Furniture was overturned and broken, and
there had been no time to remove the heavier gambling apparatus.
Playing cards, however, chips, racing sheets from the afternoon,
dice, everything portable and tangible and small enough to be
carried had disappeared.
But the greatest surprise of all was in store. Though we had seen
no one leave by any of the doors, nor by the doors of any of the
houses on the block, nor by the roofs, or even by the back yard,
according to the report of the police who had been sent in that
direction, there was not a living soul in the house from roof to
cellar. Search as we did, we could find not one of the scores of
people whom I had seen enter in the course of the evening while I
was watching on the corner.
Dillon, ever mindful of some of the absurd rules of evidence in
such cases laid down by the courts, had had an official
photographer summoned and he was proceeding from room to room,
snapping pictures of apparatus that was left in place and
preserving a film record of the condition of things generally.
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